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Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movies that Could Be Video GamesAlert reader Jay suggests:
I am not really a gamer, but it seems like “Being from Another Planet” could easily be adapted into a first-person shooter. What would your pick be? Keep your suggestions coming! 85 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movies that Could Be Video Games”Commenting at Satellite News
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It has to be SPACE MUTINY with Ryder screaming like a little girl the whole time as he is being shot at..
What else but Space Mutiny?
Rock Hardcheese and elderly girlfriend try to thwart takeover by
evil minions (2 subsets of baddies to allow for multiple players)
with the Valerians (sp.?) with their own agenda (they win if everyone else gives up the
game in confusion). Thrilling level three is the floor polishing death duel
with speeds up to 3!
There has been some criticism from users on the ease with which you can shoot lower level
baddies (aiming anywhere in the vicinity of one gets a kill).
An interesting feature is the awarding of bonus points if you constantly scream like a
girl (unless you are a woman) and constantly enjoin your minions to Move! Move! Move!
WARNING! Some violent content (mainly roasting handicapped personnel in
heat and fuel ducts).
Or how about WEREWOLF where Natalie and Paul are being chased by Joel(Joe Estevez)while Sam the Keeper tries to protect them and all the while Natalie is going “This is absolutely fascinating” as bullets go by her?
I could see a 2 person fighter based on Racket Girls.
I would pay handsomely for a Pumaman video game. All the elements are already there. A …hero I guess, with a number of special abilities. An evil villain with a crew of henchmen who lives in a huge mansion. A girl to rescue. Fun theme music. Move over, Mario and Luigi.
How about Robot Holocaust? Pop a few mutants and evil robots.
I see Final Sacrifice as a hidden object game, as the storylines in the majority of HOGs (at least the ones I’ve played) are occult-themed.
How about a “Beast of Yucca Flats” FPS (Flying Plane Shooter) where you fly over a wilderness area, shooting at random men running around?
Comes complete with semi-relevant voice-over sound bites:
“Shoot First, Ask Questions Later.”
“Flag on the Moon. How did it get there?”
etc.
@#1, 2 – Space Mutiny game:
The chase level is a little slow, but the Gas Expulsion Sump Maze is a BLAST!
Cave Dwellers would make a great RPG and Master Ninja would be a cool side scrolling arcade beat’em up.
MITCHELL: A quest type game, help Mitchell find things but if he finds a lot of beer he’ll move even slower and be harder to navigate. He could find a bag of weed in his girls pocketbook, or find a gun sliding down his pant leg. He could find the baby oil on his night stand——
NO, NO, NO, NOT THE BABY OIL!
The Magic Sword would be a great video game. Each curse, a level. The last boss, the dragon, like Bowser.
RED ZONE CUBA makes about as much sense as most of the Infocom text adventures I played in the early ’80s, but if we had branching choices surely we could make it more interesting.
THE FINAL SACRIFICE would make a dandy 2-D low-res adventure game. The final hidden bonus level would have you discovering that there is, indeed, beer on the sun. Beauty, eh?
For toddlers and preschoolers, ROBOT MONSTER would be a bubble-blowing game. That’s all. Blowing bubbles. Yep, just bubbles.
Bought the Manos game. Not that great. Warrior of the Lost World as a vast RPG.
RIDING WITH DEATH – You only have 13 hours to get from Torrance to Long Beach.
Giant Leeches: 1980s style side scroller where you toss dynamite over the side of your boat hoping to bomb the leeches.
Herc’s-a-Nappin’: the new adventure game. Fight ape-men, tell secrets to evil queens, nap at least 12 hours a day, and search for bonus jars of body grease hidden all over ancient Greece. The Sandstorm expansion pack will be available this fall.
Angel’s Revenge as an adult themed action game.
Lost Continent as a rock climbing simulator.
Soultaker seems almost custom made to be a video game, since you have to avoid the Angels of Death and find the glowing rings.
Commando Cody Car Chase: Driving simulator. Can you jump out of the car before it crashes into something or goes off the cliff? Coming soon: the “Last Clear Chance” expansion pack which adds train hazards.
Gunslinger: you play a feisty female sheriff whose job it is to depopulate the town.
B.I.G. Bug Blaster: fps where you protect a small town from an invasion of giant insects.
ok ‘Racket Girls’ as a fighter. Joe,Scallie and Mr. Big’s goons could be unlockable and you too can have them wrestle in little tights.
Pyooomayman RPG. i personally want to play Donald Pleasance.
‘Teenage Caveman’ as a ‘Mario’ kind of goofy jump and search game.
‘Beast of Yucca Flats’ done up like the old ‘Donkey Kong’ game. the cops run and climb up the mountain while an irate overacting Tor Johnson throws crap at them.
‘Super Agent Super Dragon, Danger! Death Ray or Diabolik’ first person shooter.
Nothing new to add, other than to say, the first thought in my mind was “Space Mutiny”. That would be a lot of fun. Would the mutineers guns be set to “Miss” when aiming at Blast Hardcheese?
Not for nothing, but there are mods for Doom that replace the stock sound effects with MST3K sounds.
“AAAAAUGGGH!” “Why don’t they look?”
Skydivers Jumping Death game. You basically guide your player down to specific targets on the ground. Sabotage your opponent’s ‘chutes and get power-ups from cups of coffee. Also can be played in “Plane Mode” as you’re Petey the Plane flying around shooting bad guys from the sky being careful not to hit the innocent bystanders like the guy with the guitar or the guy with the camera. Completion of the game unlocks hilarious bonus outtakes from the movie including rare shots of Tony Cardoza actually smiling.
Ah! Right up my alley (ouch!). Anyway…
Deathstalker & TWFH: Could be an open world RPG, Skyrim style(I actually named one of my characters in Skyrim Deathstalker). Obviously with no dragons, but it could have odd-sounding birds, cardboard weapons, and effeminate villains!
Radar Secret Service: Drive around in your super-secret nondescript car (with giant metallic orb on top), seeking out clues that couldn’t possibly be detected by radar in real life! You’d need a special controller that can read your biorhythms, to know when you’re giving in to the Hypno-Helio-Static-Stasis.
Warior of the Lost World: Action/RPG, possibly Mass Effect style, where you can actually make the choice not to be a complete jerk like the paper chase guy. Complete with Megaweapon boss battle! Plus, an alternate mode where you can play AS Megaweapon & trash the annoying motorcycle over & over.
Hercules: Any of them could make for some great action games. In fact, I’m disappointed at the lack of Herc games. Unfortunately the God of War series has subverted all Greek mythology games…
Gorgo: Play as mother Gorgo & stomp the city. Bonus points for stomping annoying reporters! Watch out for Dorkin!
The Killer Shrews: Hang around the house & drink! Oh, and I guess try not to get eaten by bathmat-wearing dogs. If you try to leave the house, or move too quickly between the 3 rooms, you lose!
Operation Double 007: Hypnotize women! Karate chop bad guys! Perform plastic surgery!
Secret Agent Super Dragon/Danger!! Death Ray/Codename: Diamondhead/(to a lesser degree) Agent for H.A.R.M.: All would make great (well… maybe not) spy games.
Beginning of the End: An XCOM-style strategy RPG!
Hamlet: Plays like the singing portions of Rockband/Guitar Hero, but you’re speaking along with the Hamlet’s speeches. Score high, and you’ll be rewarded with the ‘Excellent Droning!’ award.
Prince of Space / Invasion of the Neptune Men: 3rd person shooter (of course with some martial arts melee thrown in), but the enemies guns don’t work on Prince of Space. Also includes flying levels. Prince of Space has to follow Crankor, while avoiding asteroids & ‘caustic vapors’. Space Chief has to fight off seemingly endless saucers (careful not to actually go into space!).
The Day the Earth Froze: Platform/Puzzle. Plus a music-game segment where you play the harp (or whatever those where called)!
Sword & The Dragon: Another open-world RPG. This one actually DOES have a dragon! Be sure to come up with an incomprehensible overly-involved plan before the big battle!
I could go on, but that’ll do for now.
Another popular 1980s based game is Master Ninja, while of course it is just
one game each level features new villains and demi-helpless (Moore or less)
heroines. A power switch (sort of like the booster in the movie Galaxy Quest)
gives a brief birst of ninja energy to otherwise lethargic Lee Van Cleef and
a clueless Van Patton (one or other of the clan). As you advance each level you
get closer to uncovering Lee’s daughter. Thrill as you battle evil ninjas, anti-union
scab enablers (oh, and almost as bad, murderers), and terrorists (led by secret agent
defectors), etc. Be sure to use the Fake Death button as a one time per epidsode (I mean
level) escape from baddies. Remember, bad guys get three jeep losses to every
one of your van crashes.
This is a longish game of 13 episodes (I mean levels).
The game adaptation of Castle of Fu-Manchu was a flop. This unusual game from a small European developer didn’t translate well to the American market. The controls were as convoluted as the gameplay and naming the hero “Dr. Fifi” didn’t help either.
Samson (or more properly; Santo) vs the Vampire Women.
Could there be a better vehicle for a video game then a Mexican wrestler and vampires? I see it as sort of a Splatterhouse type game with boss battles taking place in the ring.
Prince of Space – in the style of an horrible bad engrish translated Japanese to English 80’s/90’s 8-bit game like Zero Wing. Where you must spend equal time fighting Krankor’s evil chicken men forces before the Phantom and his giant appear to trash downtown Tokyo. Mini-levels would include wandering the streets bootblacking (to gain various power ups and extra lives) and air battles between Krankoian Chicken ships and Prince’s wiener mobile Pith helmet ship.
I think the obvious question would be, if it hasn’t already been a Weekend discussion, what would a video game based on MTS3K be like? Would the main game be an overview of the series’s overall plot from start to finish?
With mini-games/side quests such:
What Happen to Dr. Erhardt?- through out the game players find various seeming random items that when put together finally reveal the fate of Dr. Erhardt. The amount of items found by the game’s end affect what outcome ending the player sees. Endings: #1 Dr. Erhardt is eaten by a giant spider. #2 Dr. Erhardt is contained in Area 51 due to Cold Fusion Walkman accident and in group therpy along side Trumpy, An Eye Creature, Beulah, etc. #3. Dr. Erhardt at the zoo.
Torgo’s Pizza delivery challenge- a paper boy like game where Torgo must dodge various items and characters(i.e.: Hercules, Krankor, Gamera, Goosieo, Pitch,etc.) to deliver enough pizza , crazy bread, and soda to make it into 2nd banana heaven.
The great Joel escape- players must get Joel’s escape pod down to Earth while avoiding various floating items like movie candy, Crow’s movie scripts, demon dogs, Gamera, and Timmy and Glen Manning before landing on Yahoo Serious in the Outback.
Gerry and Sylvia’s journey back to underground sumeria with special guest appearances by the cast of Alien from L.A.
Adventures in Mirror/Mirror Deep 13.
Mike Destroyer of worlds- player must put together various Rube Goldberg machines that accidentally cause the destruction of various planets from various movies.
A street fighter like game featuring Joel,Mike, The Bots, The Mads, Pearl, Bobo, Brain Guy, Torgo, Ortega, Mr. B , Santa Claus, Pitch,etc. Unlockable content would include various costumes for The main casts(EX.: Mike- Deep 13 Mike, Torgo- Torgo the White, Pearl- Pre/post Time Skip and Big Rig, Tom Servo- Big Servo, Bobo- Mad God, etc.), Hidden characters: Eddie Nelson and Jan in the Pan , and the uses of various invention exchanges as weapons.
Attack of the Clones- Mike must fight to save the S.O.L. from an uprising of the hundreds of dupicate Servos lead by Servo’s Pod clone and Evil Grandmother.
Introducing the fun new language puzzle game Decipher-a-Babble. Listen to excerpts of movie dialogue and try to figure out what is being said. This games features scenes from Killer Shrews, Warrior of the Lost World, and many more. Buy now and we’ll throw in the Max Keller bonus pack for free.
Brought to you by the makers of the logic puzzle game Who is Merritt Stone?.
How about the Gamera films as a game in the same vein as the 80’s classic “Punch-Out”? Start with Barrugon as Glass Joe and work your way up.
Laserblast almost seems too obvious.
I would love to see Travelers Tales make a Lego version of The Last Sacrifice. One of the unlockable characters would be Troy – the most useless Lego figure in history. Only problem is that no one would ever WANT to unlock him. Poor Troy.
Blood Waters of Dr. Z – Play levels as Dr. Leopold. Cross off every victory on your wheel at the end of each level. During the end credits, Jonathan Coulton sings “I’m Getting Revenge On My Friends.”
Grand Theft Auto VI. Play as Buzz, a wide-eyed youngster who just arrived in LA to find some shady work. You start out doing minor missions selling drugs to pushers for your greasy boss. Eventually you’re breaking into jails with some dude and offing anybody who gets in your way. Drive around cool convertibles, get into trouble with some local bikers, rob a 7-11, or go for dune buggy rides in this sandbox style adventure. Also, for some reason, you can teleport.
Haven’t played video games since the days of the original Playstation and N64 (SNES was the best, now and forever!), which I guess was. . . 13 years ago or something… I tell you what, I don’t miss ’em, not one bit.
BUT
I would like to see a MONSTER A-GO-GO game out there. When you get to the end. . . THERE IS NO MONSTER!
Game Over.
I see Killer Shrews as a Tapper clone.
@34 – I confess, although I’d never owned anything since a Sega system, I went out and bought a Playstation 3 back in the day, when they were the only Blu-ray player that actually worked. And now I have a free 3D player and streaming-TV box. :)
But yes, I’m with @12, Magic Sword feels the most like a structured video game:
Acquire seven players, and survive by sending each of them off to their doom for you in the boss levels.
The Final Sacrifice done as the action adventure game “Zap & Troy: Tomb Raiders”
Manos: The Hands of Fate done as horror FPS “Shack of the Dead”
Project Moon Base done as a city builder game, “Sims Moon”
Master Ninja as Master Ninja Kinect
The Girl in Lover’s Lane, Donkey Kong-style, “Jesse Kong”
Girl’s Town, Japanese dating sim game.
The Starfighters done like the old NES Top Gun game. The refueling is the hardest part!
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent done as a viking version of The Oregon Trail.
Space Mutiny done as a part of the Halo-verse with Dave Ryder as Master Chief’s Old War buddy in his own adventure!
And a Marvel vs Capcom-style fighting game featuring the women of Racket Girls and Angel’s Revenge.
Just to name a few.
You could turn “Alien from L.A.” into a something like the Tomb Raider series.
Hobgoblins Sims: As you try to build up your life as a security guard in bad section of Los Angeles, the Hobgoblins are released due to your mistake. The game then takes very strange and disturbing avenues as the Hobgoblins bring fantasies to life. You and your very “eccentric” friends have to figure out the fantasy, which Hobgoblin is causing it and kill it. Mr. Macready as the Yoda-like mentor who you can periodically check in with for clues on Hobgoblin behavior and weaknesses. Bonus knowledge unlocked when you or your friends perform a particularly skillful parking manuever. If you are able to capture the Hobgoblins and have Mr. Macready blow them up, you win!
Monster-A-No-No: The astronaut you sent into space comes back to earth as a mutating, radioactive monster. Your job is to follow the clues provided at the scenes of his murders, but just as you are about to corner the monster and destroy him- there is no monster! So you can start over in a new scenario of locations and clues, or use the optional nuclear destruct button because you are so profoundly pissed at the game ripping you off!
Thank you. I’ll believe it when I see it.
P.S. I was watching “Jack Frost” earlier, and for the first time in about 25 viewings I noticed Bobo was drinking a “Simian Adams” beer during the last host segment. So MST3K still can provide me with “Oh wow! Moonrocks!” moments!
The Violent Years dating simulator!
Well, while I was typing up my entry @39, Watch-Out-For-Snakes beat my Monster-A-Go-Go idea. Kudos! Also, I meant to say “I’ll see it when I believe it”.
Some Achievement Points for said Space Mutiny video game if it was on the XBOX 360:
50G: For 100 rail kills.
100G: For killing the final boss Kalgan.
50G: For getting Dave Ryder to hideously yell during a laser battle 100 times.
200G: For avoiding Dr. Lea Jansen’s advertising like a mandrill at the dance club.
“Warrior of the Lost World” seems like it would be a cool racing game.
Well, some of the video games that are out there had some pretty lame endings…just like most of the MSTed movies. Go figure.
‘Master Ninja Gaiden’.
You play pudgy ninja Lee Van Cleef who is searching for his long lost daughter. In the game you battle a series of thugs and terrorists with the questionable help of your student Max Keller. Levels include the redneck bar, municipal airport, high rise office, Japanese restaurant, canning factory, upper class soiree, etc. Find things like hamsters and Demi Moore for power-ups.
‘Space Invasion Of The Neptune Men’
Very much like ‘Space Invaders’, except there are always three enemy ships no matter how many you blow up. The game has no foreseeable end, it just goes on and on. It ends only when you give up in disgust or crash into the Hitler Building.
‘Manos, Desert Convertible’
Similar to Penn and Teller’s ‘Desert Bus’ game. You drive your wife and daughter from your home to the Valley Lodge in real time. Total trip takes 8 hours. A warbly Shirley Bassey sound-alike sings the whole way. If you make it to the Valley Lodge, you get one point a groping from Torgo.
#27: I’ve wondered about what genre it would be if someone made an MST3k game. I like to imagine that taking the loose idea of a plot of an episode like, say, “Soultaker” (the SOL is malfunctioning!) could make for an interesting old-fashioned adventure game like LucasArts used to make—or, if you want modern 3D graphics, like Telltale Games makes now. Imagine a “Day of the Tentacle”-style gameplay, where you can switch between Crow, Tom, Mike/Joel and maybe even Gypsy to solve puzzles. If the developers could get it right, there could even be a minigame where you go into the theater and riff on something with the interface of a rhythm game like “Guitar Hero.” (I’m not sure how the rhythm game would work; I imagine it would be either things like “Press X for Tom to riff,” or “Press Y to make joke about character’s intelligence.”)
As for actual movies… well, I know there’s at least one game based on the “Diabolik” comic book. I recall hearing it wasn’t very good. But I can imagine a stealth game where you have to get into a castle or onto a train and steal things while getting around Ginko’s traps.
“The Touch of Satan” could also make for an interesting survival horror game. If nothing else, it already has long stretches where nothing happens, which seems like it could be frightening in the hands of a smart designer.
“Future War.” Kung-fu fighting against dinosaurs. What more do you need?
The mole people as an old school pinball. Every time your hit a mole man you hear a whip crack. Knock down mushrooms for bonus points. Hit certain scores and a giant flashlight shines on a pale priest who screams. Everytime you get an extra ball a globe spins…that would be too cool!:silly:
Teen-Age Strangler as an RPG, where you play teenagers investigating several murders and bike thefts in the neighbourhood.
San Francisco International as a Microsoft Flight Simulator-style game.
The Thing that Wouldn’t Die using the Minecraft engine. Find a head…? It would be like GOLD!
Riding with Death, Grand Theft Auto style. Sam is assigned the mission to deliver tripolodyne with the truck by his boss, but he keeps getting held up by faulty brakes and various bad guys. He goes into fistfight mode to fight the baddies. Threre’s all these convoluted side missions to do in order to power up his invisibility mode. Along the way, he can score extra points by finding the hidden frozen turkeys at different rest stops along the route. The coolest part is, while in driving mode there’s an awesome soundtrack featuring music such as “Muskrat Love,” “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” and “Afternoon Delight.”
Are you sick of this game already? Well, here’s some great news: There’s a sequel! Your main adversary will be Robert Denby and you get to partner up for those fistfights with Buffalo Bill. And you get to do some racing-driving, man.
(Yes, I used to have a Grand Theft Auto Game. I got sick of it by the time I was tasked to kill some generic baddie with a chainsaw. I’m just a dilettante gamer.)